'tis the season of getting cold emails from the boldest phd applicants. In the interest of fairness for those who did not know they could ask, please DM if you'd like an inside perspective on AI/NLP at CMU. (Or share with those you know who might!)

really enjoying COLM 2025, everyone keeps telling me it feels like ICLR or neurips 10 years ago... so good vibes at an AI conferences only happens once a decade?

Emily's work looks at one of the most important issues emerging in the LLM era of social science

“He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither”

how do we even handle tech that's this fragmented, where every layer of the stack wants to be the one to deliver it? are there historical examples where this gets resolved nicely?

Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

I love reading work that draws on ideas outside NLP to examine and amplify actual practitioner perspectives – so crucial as we work toward purposeful & humanistic AI. We saw similar trends re: de-contextualization and loss of document narrative in upcoming research led by @siree.sh

New project with @profjamesevans and my @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social friends on the largest (?) examination (~11 million papers) of how computational social science emerges from -- and shapes -- Econ, Sociology, Psych, and PoliSci. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.08087 A thread: (1/7)

Mosaic v0.12 is out: database-powered scalable, interactive visualization! 📈 One new addition is support for dynamic changes in the backing data. Move between smaller and larger samples to balance speed and comprehensive coverage.

1/ Introducing ᴏᴘᴇɴꜱᴄʜᴏʟᴀʀ: a retrieval-augmented LM to help scientists synthesize knowledge 📚 @uwnlp.bsky.social & Ai2 With open models & 45M-paper datastores, it outperforms proprietary systems & match human experts. Try out our demo! openscholar.allen.ai

very useful feed from @siree.sh, and for now I'm enjoying seeing research from outside my usual bubble!

Just spun up a starter pack for people thinking about tools for thought & scholarship, future of work & science, human-AI collaboration, etc -- go.bsky.app/jSgrE5 Please reply if I've missed you, if you'd like me to remove you, or if you have suggestions on who to add!

The guy in this photo taught my AP CS class in high school. He’s a fantastic teacher. I am not joking.